Direct From TheServerSide.net "Omnicore has released X-develop Professional 1.0. X-develop is a new multi-language IDE for professional coders. X-develop Professional 1.0 supports the .NET, Mono and Java platforms as well as the C#, VB.net, Java, JavaServer Pages and J# programming languages. X-develop includes features such as on-the-fly error checking, refactoring and smart code templates." Read more...

The long awaited virtualization product is finally available on VMware site: VMware Workstation 5. I have succesfully updated my license form 4.5 to 5 for free and I am currently downloading it. I tried the beta of the 5 version with the possibility to import Microsoft Virtual PC and was surprised that it worked so well. Now to say which one is faster... I would say that it is difficult to see differences in speed, at least with my Visual Studio 2005 tests.

What can you expect from the Beta Experience?

Microsoft completes Groove Networks acquisition. "Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes software, becomes a chief technical officer (CTO) of Microsoft, reporting to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates." You also might read an interesting Garner interview of Ray Ozzie.